[olug] Active bandwidth monitoring

[Sam Tetherow]

There is a smokeping data query for cacti as well.

http://forums.cacti.net/about8503-15.html

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Rob Townley wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
>   
>> At Mon, 16 Jul 07, Unidentified Flying Banana Daniel Linder, said:
>>     
>>> I'm trying to pro-actively monitor the "real world" speed that I'm
>>>       
>> getting
>>     
>>> with my @Work connection.
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>> 1: Has anyone run across a tool like this that is free and will run on
>>>       
>> Linux?
>>
>> If you have access to remote machines, iperf[0] will likely do the
>> trick.  It runs as a client/server setup and allows you to measure
>> various bandwidth/performance related statistics between the two hosts.
>>
>> It runs on most Unix variants, and is open source.
>>
>>     
>>> Dan
>>>       
>> [0] http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
>>
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>> | Christopher
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> Christopher, thank you for a great link.  I have been looking for a long
> time for something to run on a lan to test different branded NIC drivers and
> switches.  This should support LAN speeds.  Look forward to trying out
> "Advisor" and "JPerf" along with it.
>
> http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/advisor/
> http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Jperf/
>
> There is also a promising Bandwidth Meter project at Georgia Tech:
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Constantinos.Dovrolis/bw.html
>
> SmokePing http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/index.en.html is a project that by
> default would not take up much bandwidth.  The ping payload may be
> configurable which could possibly be adapted to test bandwidth.  It can also
> work with Nagios.
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